Catalogue entry

View from a Window at Wellfleet
Catalogue no. 999
1939
Wellfleet, MA
Pencil on paper
10 3/4 x 12 3/4 in. (27.3 x 32.4 cm)
Signed, dated on right: "E W Dickinson 1939"
Inscribed lower left: "Wellfleet"
Theodore Hughes Waddell
Second Street Photographic
Notes
Drawn in Wellfleet, MA, November 29, 30 (journal), of Cove and Great Island through northwest living room window of Dickinson house. Pl. 24, Goodrich, "Drawings of Edwin Dickinson," [mis-dated 1935].
Provenance
Mr. & Mrs. Charles Evans Hughes
Mr. & Mrs. Chauncey L. Waddell (Catherine Hughes);
Theodore Hughes Waddell
Exhibition History
Georgette Passedoit Gallery, New York, Recent Paintings and Drawings by Edwin W. Dickinson, April 10–29, 1939, as "Harbor, Wellfleet".
Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, Edwin Dickinson, Retrospective Exhibition, March 7–April 4, 1959, as "A View from a Window at Wellfleet" dated 1941".
James Graham & Sons, New York, Edwin Dickinson, Retrospective, February 1–March 11, 1961, as "A View from a Window at Wellfleet" dated 1941".
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Edwin Dickinson. Major retrospective, October 20–November 28, 1965, dated 1935.
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Citation: Dickinson Baldwin, Helen. "View from a Window at Wellfleet, 1939 (Catalogue no. 999)." In The Edwin Dickinson Catalogue Raisonné. www.edwindickinson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=999 (accessed on July 15, 2026).